"November 20, 2012. Gypsy (1962 film) Gypsy is a 1962 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical """" by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from """" by Gypsy Rose Lee. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for songs composed by Jule Styne. The film was remade for television in 1993. Determined to make her young, blonde, and beautiful daughter June a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags the girl and"
"that Church and ""Gypsy"" composer Jule Styne would marry, although this was untrue. In November 1964, she married Broadway producer Norman Twain in Barbados; the couple divorced in 1975. Church has no children. Sandra Church Sandra Church (born January 13, 1938) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her performance as Gypsy Rose Lee in the musical """" (1959), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Church was born and raised in San Francisco, California. Her father died when she was two years old; her mother, a"
"she achieved fame in her shows, which included groups of dancers and bodybuilders; Gypsy Rose Lee, immortalized in the famous autobiographical musical ""Gypsy"". Her innovations consisted of a casual style, against the spasmodic movements of other strippers (she emphasized the joke during the striptease) and brought a keen sense of humor to her performances. She was one of the main stars of the Minsky's Burlesque, with whom she worked four years. Working with the Minsky brothers was arrested several times. Another important figure of this time was Novita ""The Pixie of Burlesque"", one of the founders of the Exotic Dancers"
"nature of ""bumps"" and ""grinds"", and the slapdash nature of burlesque shows. The G-String Murders The G-String Murders is a 1941 detective novel written by famed American burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee. There have been claims made that the novel was written by mystery writer Craig Rice but others have suggested that there is enough documented evidence in the form of manuscripts and correspondence to prove Lee wrote at least a large portion if not the whole of the novel herself under the tutelage of editor/friend George Davis with some essential guidance from her good friend Rice. The novel has"
"theatergoers staying inside during a brutal stretch of weather, the production's sales grew increasingly weak. More important, the show's advance sale, the main indicator of a production's staying power, began to shrink rapidly. It stood at less than $2 million yesterday."" After an increase in the gross, the show's closing was postponed indefinitely, but ""Gypsy"" finally closed on May 30, 2004 after 451 performances and 33 previews. The production is believed to have recouped a little more than half of its $8 million investment. Patti LuPone first portrayed Rose in ""Gypsy"" at the Chicago Ravinia Festival in August 2006, directed"
"Sandra Church Sandra Church (born January 13, 1938) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her performance as Gypsy Rose Lee in the musical """" (1959), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Church was born and raised in San Francisco, California. Her father died when she was two years old; her mother, a nurse, ""thrust her into show business."" Although Church had originally detested the idea, she later decided to choose acting as her vocation. She attended Immaculate Heart High School, Hollywood. Church's first on-screen appearance"
"approached by Laurents and Robbins for a musical version of Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir after Irving Berlin and Cole Porter turned it down. Sondheim agreed, but Ethel Merman – cast as Mama Rose – had just finished ""Happy Hunting"" with an unknown composer (Harold Karr) and lyricist (Matt Dubey). Although Sondheim wanted to write the music and lyrics, Merman refused to let another first-time composer write for her and demanded that Jule Styne write the music. Sondheim, concerned that writing lyrics again would pigeonhole him as a lyricist, called his mentor for advice. Hammerstein told him he should take the"
"2001 through 2003. This production ran in rep at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario starring Nora McLellan as Rose and Julie Martell as Louise. Martell understudied Tammy Blanchard in the 2003 Broadway revival. Also, Kate Hennig, who has appeared on Broadway as Ms. Wilkinson in ""Billy Elliot"", played Ms. Cratchitt as well as understudying and playing Rose at certain scheduled performances. ""Gypsy"" was presented by Phoenix Entertainment with Kathy Halenda starring as Rose and Missy Dowse as Louise. The production was directed by Sam Viverto and assisted by Aja Kane. Principal casting also included Ruby Lewis as June, Rachel Abrams"
"its historical use in antiziganist violence, including laws authorizing the enslavement, branding, deportations, and murder of Romanichal (British Roma) during the Tudor period in England. Gypsy (TV series) Gypsy is U.S. psychological thriller Netflix series created by Lisa Rubin for Netflix. Naomi Watts stars as Jean Holloway, a psychologist who secretly infiltrates the private lives of her patients. Billy Crudup co-stars as her husband Michael. The first season comprises 10 episodes and was released on June 30, 2017. In February 2016, Sam Taylor-Johnson was announced as the director for the first two episodes of the series, in addition to an"
"Gypsy (TV series) Gypsy is U.S. psychological thriller Netflix series created by Lisa Rubin for Netflix. Naomi Watts stars as Jean Holloway, a psychologist who secretly infiltrates the private lives of her patients. Billy Crudup co-stars as her husband Michael. The first season comprises 10 episodes and was released on June 30, 2017. In February 2016, Sam Taylor-Johnson was announced as the director for the first two episodes of the series, in addition to an executive producer. Moreover, Lisa Rubin serves as executive producer and showrunner. Stevie Nicks re-recorded an acoustic version of her Fleetwood Mac song ""Gypsy"" to serve"
"The G-String Murders The G-String Murders is a 1941 detective novel written by famed American burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee. There have been claims made that the novel was written by mystery writer Craig Rice but others have suggested that there is enough documented evidence in the form of manuscripts and correspondence to prove Lee wrote at least a large portion if not the whole of the novel herself under the tutelage of editor/friend George Davis with some essential guidance from her good friend Rice. The novel has also been published under the titles ""Lady of Burlesque"" and ""The Strip-Tease"
"and Stephen Tobolowsky, who was slated to be a cast member of ""Home Improvement"", but had other contractual commitments when the series began filming. Tobolowsky initially suggested to producers of ""Home Improvement"" that Richardson be considered for the role of Jill Taylor after Frances Fisher was deemed too serious for the role. Richardson began as the understudy for the role of Gypsy Rose Lee in Angela Lansbury's Broadway production of """", also playing several small chorus parts. In the next ten years she worked in regional theater, commercials, and other Broadway and Off- Broadway plays. She had roles in programs"
"character, not Rose, that ""Gypsy"" asks the audience to root for, and the lovely Ms. Moore, who steadily blossoms from a forgotten child to a self-possessed star, makes it easy to do so."" John Simon of New York Magazine said, ""Crista Moore runs the gamut from self-abnegating duckling to dazzling swan with seamless perfection. She is the first performer to justify the show’s title being not ""Rose"" but ""Gypsy"".” She next starred as Polly in the First National Tour of ""Crazy for You"" opposite James Brennan, succeeding Karen Ziemba. The production was directed by Mike Ockrent and choreographed by Susan"
"by her friend Roger Edens, who, because of his exclusive contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, credited them to Kay Thompson. She lost the Tony Award to Judy Holliday in ""Bells Are Ringing"", and the show closed after 412 performances, with Merman happy to see what she considered ""a dreary obligation"" finally come to an end. """" was based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee and starred Merman as her domineering stage mother, Rose Hovick, possibly Merman's best-remembered performance. The musical opened on May 21, 1959, at The Broadway Theatre. In the ""New York Post,"" Richard Watts called Merman ""A brilliant actress,"""
"this was its first network showing. Thus, CBS declared the actual premiere date of the ""Thursday Night Movie's"" fourth season as September 26, when another biographical picture, the musical ""Gypsy"", starring Natalie Wood as burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee, made its television bow. The next evening, a second Natalie Wood attraction, ""Sex and the Single Girl"" (1964), initiated a third year's roster for the ""CBS Friday Night Movie."" This entry garnered a lot of box-office in its heyday, but critics had labeled it a dud. In fact, similarly harsh judgments had been passed by critics on most of the other"
"as was the case when he met burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee and began an open relationship with her. Lee had already attempted to break into movie roles, but she was not taken seriously as anything more than a stripper. She appeared in B pictures in less-than-minor roles. Preminger's liaison with Lee produced a child, Erik. Lee rejected the idea of Preminger helping to support the child, instead eliciting a vow of silence from Preminger: he was not to reveal Erik's paternity to anyone, including Erik himself. Lee called the boy Erik Kirkland after her husband, Alexander Kirkland, from whom"
"high school"" after moving with her mother to Los Angeles.) Coates is listed (as Gypsy Stell) among the alumni of Los Angeles City College. Originally billed as Gypsy Stell, Coates was allegedly discovered in 1943 by vaudeville comedian Ken Murray in a Hollywood and Vine restaurant from whom she learned comic timing. She subsequently appeared as a dancer and a comedienne in skits for ten months in ""Blackouts"", his ""racy"" (mildly risqué) variety show. Along with Murray and other comedians, the show included showgirls, tap dancers, bird acts and Marie Wilson as the stereotypical ""dumb blonde"". She later performed as"
"Helena Blackman Helena Blackman (born 10 December 1982 in Southampton) is a British musical theatre actress best known for being the runner-up in the hit BBC1 Reality TV programme ""How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?"". She trained at the Guildford School of Acting. On 29 October 2006, Blackman was seen as Gypsy Rose Lee in a production of """" which was performed at the Wales Millennium Centre as part of the ""Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre"". In December 2006, Blackman played Dorothy in an acclaimed run of ""The Wizard of Oz"" at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester."
"in 1987 at Washington, DC's Arena Stage, directed by James C. Nicola. Rose wrote the story ""Zen and the Art of Murder"" for the series """" in 1993 and was one of the writers for the 2003 mini-series ""Kingpin"". After becoming a fan of the Virgin New Adventures, Lloyd sent a proposal for an Eighth Doctor Adventure to BBC Books which eventually became the story ""The City of the Dead"" (BBC Books, 2001). This novel was highly regarded by both the readership and her contemporaries, and led to two further novels — ""Camera Obscura"" (BBC Books, 2002; winner of the"
"and all involving the perpetually exasperated Captain Daniel Von Flanagan of the Homicide Squad. A few stories feature the team of Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak, small-time grifters who become involved in criminal situations and have to dig themselves free by solving the mystery. Craig Rice also ghostwrote for George Sanders. Because of their friendship, many fans assumed that Rice ghostwrote the two wildly popular mysteries by Gypsy Rose Lee. ""While the collaboration with Gypsy is often reported,"" J. F. Norris writes, ""In the recently published and thoroughly well researched biography of Gypsy Rose Lee (""Stripping Gypsy: The Life of"
"Gypsy Rose Lee,"" Oxford University Press, 2009) [author Noralee Frankel makes it clear] that Craig Rice DID NOT write either of Lee's comic mystery novels. This is supported with correspondence between Lee and Rice. Rice did, however, help craft the screenplay for ""The G String Murders"" which became the Barbara Stanwyck vehicle ""Lady of Burlesque""."" Her association with Sanders came about as a result of her work on the screenplays of two of ""The Falcon"" movies, ""The Falcon's Brother"" (1942, Sanders's final outing as The Falcon) and ""The Falcon in Danger"" (1943, when Sanders's brother Tom Conway had taken over"
"Gypsy Nash Gypsy Nash (previously Smith) is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera ""Home and Away"", played by Kimberley Cooper. She debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 18 February 1998. Gypsy and her on-screen family the Nashes were introduced to fill the void of Debra Lawrance's departure as Pippa Ross, to form the main family at the caravan park home, often described as ""the centre of Summer Bay"". Cooper quit the serial in 2001 and last appeared on 15 February 2002. Cooper has won two awards for her portrayal of Gypsy and is often referred"
"co-hosts ""Jalen & Jacoby"", a national US sports radio show on ESPN Radio, with David Jacoby. Since April 2018, Rose began co-hosting ""Get Up!"", a three-hour morning sports talk show on ESPN, along with Michelle Beadle and Mike Greenberg. Rose is the owner of Three Tier Entertainment, an independent, Los Angeles based management and production company. Created in 2007, Three Tier Entertainment develops television and film projects and also manages talent including directors, actors and screenplay writers. The March 13, 2011 airing of the documentary ""The Fab Five"", which Rose produced, sparked controversy that led to a series of media"
"Hope"", ""JAG"", ""Ally McBeal"", ""ER"", ""Walker, Texas Ranger"" and ""NYPD Blue"". She also appeared in the television movie ""Lying Eyes"" (1996). Jamie Rose's memoir/self-help book about her experiences learning the tango and how it affected her relationship, ""Shut Up and Dance! The Joy of Letting Go of the Lead--On the Dance Floor and Off"", was released September 15, 2011. In 2006, Rose married actor Kip Gilman. Since September 2007, she has been teaching acting through her JRose Studio in Los Angeles, California. Jamie Rose Jamie Rose (born November 26, 1959) is an American actress who played Vickie Gioberti on the"
"The Yellow Rose The Yellow Rose is an American soap opera that was broadcast on NBC from October 2, 1983 until May 12, 1984. It was produced by Paul Freeman. The series was at least partly inspired by the more coltish elements of the soap opera ""Dallas"", and dealt with the intrigues of the Texas-based Champion family who owned a 200,000-acre cattle and oil ranch called ""The Yellow Rose."" The show's cast included Sam Elliott, David Soul, Edward Albert, Cybill Shepherd, Chuck Connors, Noah Beery, Jr., Ken Curtis, Robin Wright and Jane Russell. ""The Yellow Rose"" was canceled after one"
"Murders"". Set in a burlesque theater, Lee casts herself as the detective who solves a set of homicides in which strippers in her troupe are found strangled with their own G-strings. In 2005, Feminist Press of the City University of New York republished the book as one of its ""Women Write Pulp"" series. Gypsy Rose Lee narrates her way through a tale of a double murder, backstage at the ""Old Opera"" burlesque theatre on Forty-Second Street, New York. In a world populated by strippers, comics and costume salesman. A world where crime is part of the norm and where women"
"Gypsy Colt Gypsy Colt is a 1954 Ansco Color film about an eponymous horse. The films basic plot was taken from ""Lassie Come Home"". A 60-minute version of ""Gypsy Colt"" was made available in 1967 as part of the weekly TV anthology ""Off to See the Wizard"". A young girl, Meg (Donna Corcoran), is disheartened when her parents Frank (Ward Bond) and Em MacWade (Frances Dee) are forced to sell her favorite horse, Gypsy Colt, to a rancher. Gypsy Colt escapes several times, ultimately taking a 500-mile journey to return to his rightful owner. According to MGM records the movie"
"""Da Vinci's Demons"" as the ""seductive and minded"" Clarice Orsini, a series regular and wife of Lorenzo Medici. In 2014, she played Louise in a revival of ""Gypsy"" at the Chichester Festival Theatre. The production transferred to the West End in April 2015. Miss Pulver won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the same role in the Savoy Theatre production of ""Gypsy"". Louise is actually the title role, as ""Louise"" becomes the real-life early-20th-century American strip-tease sensation Gypsy Rose Lee, on whose memoirs the musical is based. Pulver's co-star in the Savoy production, Imelda"
"The Rose (TV series) The Rose () is a 2003 Taiwanese drama starring Ella Chen, Jerry Huang, Joe Cheng, Joelle Lu and Cecilia Yip. It was based on Japanese josei manga, , written by Akemi Yoshimura and directed by Chu Yu-ning (). It was broadcast on Taiwan Television (TTV) (台視) from 25 May 2003 to 23 November 2003. The series won Most Popular Drama of the Year at the 2004 Golden Bell Awards, Taiwan. Zheng Bai He (Ella Chen), after being dumped by her boyfriend because she is ugly and fat and having her grandmother die on the same day"
"North American rentals of $19.1 million. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Criterion Collection released the film on Blu-ray and DVD on May 19, 2015. The Rose (film) The Rose is a 1979 American drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager. The film stars Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus, and David Keith. The story is loosely based on the life of singer Janis Joplin."
"Rose Abdoo Rose Marie Abdoo (born November 28, 1962) is an American actress and comedian, known for her roles as Stars Hollow's local mechanic, Gypsy, on ""Gilmore Girls"" and as Spanish teacher Señorita Rodriguez on ""That's So Raven"". Abdoo was born in Detroit, Michigan. She is of Lebanese and Dominican descent. Abdoo's career began in Chicago, where she performed at various improvisational theaters, including the Improv Institute and four years with The Second City; she went on to develop her own one-woman shows, ""Who Does She Think She Is?"" and ""Get to the Part About Me"". She also did a"
"Equity Production. In October 2014, Imelda Staunton starred as Rose in a production directed by Jonathan Kent. Lara Pulver performed as Louise, Kevin Whately as Herbie, Louise Gold as Mazeppa, Anita Louise Combe as Tessie Tura and Julie Legrand as Electra. The musical ran to 8 November. 2017 The Cape Playhouse In July and August of 2017, The Cape Playhouse presented a celebrated revival of ""Gypsy"" that featured Julia Murney as Rose. The production, directed by Michael Rader, choreographed by Jason Sparks and with music direction by Garrett Taylor, broke box office records and featured Caroline Bowman as Louise, James"
"career as a film director, he wanted to film it, asking Jay Presson Allen to write a screenplay after she had written the screenplay for Hitchcock's film ""Marnie"" (1964). However, Hitchcock was under contract to Universal Pictures at the time, and the studio believed that the project was ""too troubling"", with not enough commercial appeal, so would not approve production. In 2016, a radio play adaptation of Mary Rose was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. It was adapted and directed by Abigail le Fleming with music composed and performed by cellist Laura Moody. In 2017, Adaptive Books published the novel"